Naughty Dog rules out The Last Of Us for PS4

There are apparently ‘no plans’ to release a version of Sony’s best-selling exclusive for the PlayStation 4, even as new DLC is released on PlayStation 3.

Although Microsoft hasn’t released an internally made Xbox 360 game all year the PlayStation 3 has had one of its busiest, and arguably, best years yet for first party exclusives. But despite games like The Last Of Us, Puppeteer, and Beyond: Two Souls being a critical and/or commercial success there’s no sign of any of them migrating to the PlayStation 4.

The Last Of Us would be the most desirable, for Sony and for gamers, but according to creator Naughty Dog it’s not happening.

Asked by a reader on the PlayStation Blog whether the game would be ported to the PlayStation 4 Naughty Dog’s Eric Monacelli answered, ‘We have no plans to do that.’

Plans change and developers lie but there seems no reason to doubt him at this point, since if there was any possibility of it happening it would’ve been much easier for him to just ignore the question.

It is slightly surprising though, since the game’s excellent visuals would’ve segued very well to the PlayStation 4 and because there’s still a significant amount of downloadable content yet to be released for it.

Four new multiplayer maps were released yesterday and, as revealed last month, Naughty Dog plans to release new single-player story content in December or January.

But if The Last Of Us isn’t coming to PlayStation 4 it again raises the question of what Naughty Dog are making for the new console. They have two team and if you assume the one for The Last Of Us is still working on the downloadable content that presumably means the Uncharted team will be releasing something next.

That doesn’t necessarily mean it will be Uncharted 4 – it could be something brand new – but Lost’s Dominic Monagha did recently mention ‘a new Uncharted’ during a visit to Naughty Dog’s studios…